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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Capitanian mass extinction event, also known...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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    supernova Anoxic event Late Devonian extinction Capitanian mass extinction event Permian–Triassic extinction event Triassic–Jurassic extinction event Cretaceous–Paleogene...
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    End-Botomian mass extinction around 517 million years ago, and the Dresbachian extinction event about 502 million years ago. The Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event...
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  • This extinction event may be related to the much larger Permian–Triassic extinction event that followed about 10 million years later. The Capitanian Stage...
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    The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...
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    This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME)...
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    P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and...
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    as the sixth mass extinction. However, given the recent recognition of the Capitanian mass extinction, the term seventh mass extinction has also been...
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    Gorgonopsia (category Lopingian extinctions)
    become apex predators of their environments following the Capitanian mass extinction event which killed off the dinocephalians and some large therocephalians...
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    Dinocephalia (category Guadalupian extinctions)
    260 million years ago (Ma), but became extinct during the Capitanian mass extinction event. Dinocephalians included herbivorous, carnivorous, and omnivorous...
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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...
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    consisted of several extinction events in the Late Devonian Epoch, which collectively represent one of the five largest mass extinction events in the history...
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    advanced therapsids. The end of the Capitanian Stage of the Permian was marked by the major Capitanian mass extinction event, associated with the eruption of...
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    diversity were severely reduced by the Capitanian mass extinction event and the Permian–Triassic extinction event, and only two groups of therapsids, the...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also called...
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  • more affected by the Capitanian mass extinction event than by Permian–Triassic extinction event, and that both extinction events were followed by morphological...
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    change for hundreds of millions of years. Mass extinctions are relatively rare events; however, isolated extinctions of species and clades are quite common...
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    Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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    anomalies associated with three extinction events (Capitanian Crisis, Latest Permian Extinction and the Smithian/Spathian Extinction) in NW Pangea". Geological...
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  • excluding major extinction events, including the current human-induced Holocene extinction. There have been five mass extinction events throughout Earth's...
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  • associated with the end-Capitanian mass extinction event, the extinction of animal and plant life that occurred at the end of the Capitanian stage of the Guadalupian...
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  • Biodiversification Event, and largely became extinct in the Capitanian mass extinction event and the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This fauna is marked...
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    Alatoconchidae (category Guadalupian extinctions)
    probably due to Capitanian mass extinction event, being one of the more notable bivalve extinctions caused by this event. This event caused drastic fluctuation...
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    protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject...
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  • Thumbnail for Guadalupian
    therapsids, a minor extinction event called Olson's Extinction and a significant mass extinction called the end-Capitanian extinction event. The Guadalupian...
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    The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...
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  • sixth extinction. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during...
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    Late Paleozoic icehouse (category Carboniferous events)
    surge in activity from the Emeishan Traps and corresponding Capitanian mass extinction event. The final alpine glaciers of the LPIA melted in what is now...
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